HD Tron Legacy Trailer Really Tron 2.0

Everything about the movie looks like Tron version two. Jeff Bridge’s character’s son is starring, the Academy Award winning Dude makes an appearance and the special effects are directly inspired by the wild neon of the original Tron. The scary flying horseshoes and light bikes return too, and are looking stunning. I [...more]

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Mar 09 2010
By Nick Upton

Online Video Guide Clicker Launches Redesign

For those unaware, Clicker is an online video site that acts as a guide to other online video sites serving up television episodes and movies. It crawls Hulu along with cable and network television sites, and keeps track of what episodes of what shows are available for instant viewing. Until now, Clicker was like the phone [...more]

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Mar 09 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

First iPad Commercial Airs During Oscars

Here’s the very first iPad commercial, which aired during last night’s Oscars. If you’ve been following the device on the blogs then it’s nothing new, but it’s still an entertaining, well put together commercial. It also explains why Steve Jobs was seen on the red carpet, which is pictured below: In other Oscar news, the techno-tastic Avatar [...more]

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Mar 08 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

MorphPad Blurs Touch Screen, Keypad

A new technology looks to appease those wanting a sleek touch screen with the tactile feedback of a real button. According to the MorphPad company rep, the technology is only available in a few devices in Japan, but it will likely make its way to the US at some point. She did mention [...more]

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Mar 07 2010
By Nick Upton

Oscar Red Carpet Streamed Live Over Livestream

The NYC based live streaming startup Livestream just partnered up with the massive newswire service Associated Press to run all of the AP’s live video streams, streams until this point I had no idea existed. The first event to be covered under the new Livestream/AP partnership? The Oscars! Look, I could give two craps about [...more]

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Mar 06 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Hulu Loses Comedy Central

Interestingly, I was just ruminating last night to friends about the value of having Viacom shows on Hulu, a service owned by FOX, ABC & NBC. Then this morning, we get the news that as of today, Comedy Central content will be pulled from Hulu. This is bad news for consumers, but I honestly don’t see [...more]

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Mar 06 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Google Takes Page From Microsoft Photosynth

Google Maps is taking a note from Microsoft’s Photosynth and tapping into user photos to create street views of places that street view doesn’t reach. Google released a video of the new addition in action, and it looks almost exactly like Photosynth. It basically uses location data and algorithms to combine photographs into [...more]

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Mar 05 2010
By Nick Upton

Turn Your Next Party Into A YouTube “Disco”

YouTube has introduced a novel way to find and watch music videos. Dubbed YouTube Discovery (Disco for short) is a pretty snazzy way to whip up a playlist of music videos. Throw the resulting playlist on a projector, and you’ve instantly got a night of aural and ocular stimulation. Once the playlist [...more]

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Mar 02 2010
By Nick Upton

Birds Are Into Really Crazy Music

I’ve said it all along, birds are huge fans of avant garde rock — now I have proof! French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot designed an installation that gave a flock of zebra finches an electric guitar and other instruments and let them rock out. What comes out reminds me of the music my really strange friends [...more]

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Mar 01 2010
By Nick Upton

Aspiral Clock Makes It Fun To Watch The Clock

Some trippy Brits made one of the coolest clocks I have ever seen. Instead of a pair of boring hands and a second hand, the clock has just one ball. As the day progresses, the ball stays rolls along as the face of the spiral-shaped clock turns. After 12 hours, the ball [...more]

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Mar 01 2010
By Nick Upton